The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra became an official department of the Lincoln Center in 1991, formed with surviving members of Duke Ellington’s orchestra, according
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At 6 years old, Wynton Marsalis already had a trumpet in his hands. Growing up in New Orleans in the 1960s, music surrounded Marsalis both
In a four-handed piano celebration, Boogie Stomp! will lead Chautauquans on a danceable journey through 100 years worth of classic American music, from jazz to
Since 1999, Chautauqua Music Camps have inspired musical and emotional growth in middle and high school students. Members of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and professionals
Authors Ron MacLean and Neil Shepard will close out the 2016 season at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center. MacLean will serve as the prose writer-in-residence and
If there was one motto for the Charlotte Ballet last Friday, it was: The show must go on. After dancers James Kopecky and Josh Hall
Most of the time when people use the term, “firing on all cylinders,” they don’t mean it literally. But at the School of Art, the
For more than half a century, barbershop quartets have been harmonizing in the Amphitheater. Before the venue is rebuilt later this year, the Barbershop Harmony
Rossen Milanov, conductor and music director of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, said he thinks a partnership with the Columbus Symphony Chorus is a wonderful way
Nancy McCabe said when she got the invitation to teach at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center during Week Eight, she began planning for her reading, workshop
American composer Robert Shaw was many things: conductor, musical ambassador and close friend of President Jimmy Carter, but above all else, he was a man
Nicolas Dautricourt said Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 was one of the first concertos he played in public. Dautricourt will solo
A week focused on war will bring Chautauqua veteran Brian Castner to the grounds to talk about his experiences and his new book, All the
There’s no green room backstage at Bratton Theater. Or rather, there is a green room, but it’s just a hallway with some shelving that
Editor’s note: Stanley Lombardo’s presentation of Homer’s Iliad at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Hall of Philosophy has been canceled. The book still serves as
Janet O’Neill can’t quit Chautauqua. She’s been working her way up the costume ladder at Chautauqua Theater Company since 2013. This year, she’s hit the